Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17
|u5Ll'-sAxoH METHOD

uGLo-sASoh METHOD
,.,, Hon. Charles 5. May of
,,.,u Says Prohibi.
tion lss
,e,,n Before the Maryland State
temperance Alliance
loving speech was recently sa de-
Hon. Charles S. May, ex:
Governor of Michigan, before
state Temperance Alliance,
uau Baltimore:
orouud your great city to-day,
Eilns I am reminded of my first
Esn ,I,;more, when l marched with
ba''' With loaded guns, through
el'' ,umrltuous streets. in the ex-
y. ,.morable days of that spring
come once moro, this time
sD, , Of peace, to join hands with
Eio. n another great danger of the
= Ne have an enemy to- day worse
y. W. bad and terrible as that was,
e e. q sense was far away, cloud
III lack Il and threatening, over our
.ty and finally burst into the
S and thunder of our great civil
h., I- is speedy death in that vast
u y, tragedy. Our enemy of to-day
y Csc "Se of the blood which carries
a s,+n all our circulation, moral,
u. nv and economic. This enemy,
'a vast poisonous influence which
.or the most part invisible to
! ~ physical eye. Only, perhaps,
hundred thousand rumsellers
sconntless victims can we see its
nbysical manifestation. But we
III IT. is intrenched deeply, every
[arnd us, in those old master pas
Jnmon nature, avarioe and appe-
asa are its roots. Nearer the sur.
;ntyenched in the license systems of
E I- States which give it the sane
nrotection of the law; in the reve-
IN Of our General Government,
AZ s' become a partner with it; and in
lro1s of millions OF dollars worth
a l invested in the business. We
a,it has for generations been in
with our daily habits and social
And finally, in our day, we have
risa to the surface of affairs, thrust
III. The fore front of our politics, and,
AIR. defenseless and Handwriting
system. lay its hand, as slavery did
Z. upon both the old parties of the
my friends, standing related to this
business, to this appalling state Of
tbere are three classes of citizens.
l. criminal class, the men engaged
(nsness. and with these the morally
|tnt, like the men in slavery times
not care whether slavery was voted
ctad down.
h class for license and reputation
erirs expediency and compromise
beclass for prohibition and ertirpa,
he class who are for the abolition
utilization of the traffic.
cen these classes of men the clasl
ion has commenced. 1t will con.
tntil the great question is settled
bphgase the memorable words of MIR
b. in reference to slavery: Gu
divided against itself cannot stand
mo, endure as people half drunke,
h sober. Either we shall prohibi
arrest the further spread of tn
traffic, or its advocates will push
luntil it shall become alike Lawful
sefuJ in all the States of TIL
And nation of drunkards canno
F.isd upon to maintain liberty OF
ht-ent.
sue, to my mind, two great an
hartal objections to the license sys
it is wrong in principle-complete
fundamentally wrong. Now, thi
system of license and regulation, q
lled, recognizes the right, the mora
Egal right, of the traffic to live. ]
not TO live, not a single day no
but 10 die, rather, and be swept ava
be earth. Why do 1 say this? 1 sa
(use the traffic is an immoral and il
bate business, an alien and an enem
the industries, and ought to b
Pn outlaw. There is one great an
lest by which we can know a legiti
business; there is q beautiful la
governs in this matter-the law {
ptual assistance and dependence c
eful callings among men, the gres
the sympathy of the industries, if
call it. Under this law the test
Fery man who is engaged in legiti
business, while prosecuting that bus
primarily for himself and to bette
FA private fortune, is all the tim
g bis neighbors and the gener;
helping to build up society abo,
will this rule work when applied
por traffic? Why, my friends. yo
as we'll talk of founding the pro!
OF town or city upon smallpox {
erla as upon the liquor tratfi'
you license these? That gre
pan, Mr.. Gladstone, has said fro,
Pee IN the British Parliament that Il
Traffic is greater scourge to II
Ih'speaking race of to- day than wa
nee and famine combined, tho!
great historic scourges of the rae
y hrst terrific count in the arraig1
q the license system that it max,
Ia.e partner in this crime.
Inc state say: "Pay your none
coined from widows tears and O.
rags and shame; pay your none
7 wet with the blood Of tragedy al
INTO our treasury, and you may s
prey upon society, destroy Il
and sap the foundations Of liberty
ta 'e'enue system, license is mise
laliure. 1t costs three dollars in d
s ses, to say nothing about the rest
..ount, to collect every vile doll
t V.o the public treasury. The fgur
. an We have, in the first place,
ulee force in all our towns and citi
ppress disorder and keep the publ
Nlne- tenths of all this disord
~, from the liquor traffic, the promot
p.s' and broils and disturbance. v